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Jim Corbett, ace hunter and inimitable raconteur, was also a gifted observer, not just of the jungle but also of the people around him. In the seventeen sketches included in The Hunter's Friends, readers will meet the men and women Corbett lived, hunted and worked with, both in Kumaon, Corbett's stomping grounds for most of his life, and in Mokameh Ghat, where he was, employed by the Railways.
'Kunwar Singh', intrepid poacher of the Kaladhungi jungles,...
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279 pages ; 21 cm
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"When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by Greta's determination to...
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David Suzuki's autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in Metamorphosis and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzuki reflects on his entire life and his hopes for the future. The book begins with his life-changing experience of racism interned in a World War II concentration camp, and goes on to discuss his teenage years, his college and postgraduate experiences...
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ix, 182 pages ; 21 cm
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"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ectopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now this mysterious country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ectopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be...
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288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Birder, environmentalist and activist Mya-Rose Craig is an international force. In her moving memoir, Birdgirl, she chronicles her mother's struggle with mental illness, and shares her passion for social justice and fierce dedication to preserving our planet. Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as "Birdgirl." In her words: "Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my...
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"From a young, gay environmentalist, a searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality "seems akin to a ticking bomb." "I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power." So begins Taylor Brorby's Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota, "a place where...
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xvii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness"--Back cover.
Wrenched from the Land features sixteen interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness. The...
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel's journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental...
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"Als ich mich aus der stressigen Geschäftswelt verabschiedete, hatte ich keine Ahnung welchen Weg Gott für mich vorbereitet hatte. Doch als er ihn mir zeigte, wurde für mich ein Traum wahr: Ich machte meine Tierliebe zum Beruf. Heute zähle ich Katzen, Hunde, einen Haufen Hühner, diverse Ziegen und Pferde zu meinen regelmäßigen Gästen. Sie erinnern mich täglich daran, dass es einen wunderbaren Gott gibt, der mich in meiner Unvollkommenheit...
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En estos poemas, trece embajadores animales toman la palabra y lanzan un grito de auxilio a su mayor depredador, el ser humano.
In these poems, thirteen animal ambassadors take the floor and call on their main predator, the human being, for help.
Dans ces poèmes, treize ambassadeurs des animaux prennent la parole et appellent au secours leur plus grand prédateur, l'être humain.
80) A Gentle Radical
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Major biography of Jeanette Fitzsimons, hugely influential leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Jeanette Fitzsimons was a visionary, a pioneer and a radical. This is the story of someone who battles National and Labour's lock on parliament and had the courage to challenge political sacred cows.
She was the co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009, and a member of parliament from 1996 to 2010.
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